Identifying Classic Steelhead Water: Flats

If you are relatively new to this whole crazy, masochistic endeavor we call steelhead fishing, you've undoubtedly heard the term "flat" thrown around in conversation. As a young steelheader in junior high, I often overheard the river veterans talking about catching steelhead on flats. Flats, flats, flats…I kept hearing
The best way I can describe a flat is to think of a river like one of those big switchback style stairways you’ll find in a tall office building. As you walk up the first flight, you are like steelhead swimming upstream through the rapids. 

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FINDING FALL STEELHEAD • by Matt Straw – Great Lakes Angler